Enhanced Expression of lmb Gene Encoding Laminin-Binding Protein in Streptococcus agalactiae Strains Harboring IS1548 in scpB-lmb Intergenic Region

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Al Safadi, Rim ^a   Amor, Souheila ^a   Hery Arnaud, Geneviève ^a   Spellerberg, Barbara ^b   Lanotte, Philippe ^a   Mereghetti, Laurent ^a   Gannier, François ^a   Quentin, Roland ^a,c   Rosenau, Agnès ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^b Inst für Med Mikrobiologie   (Germany)

^c SERVICE DE DERMATOLOGIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; FIBRONECTIN; LAMININ BINDING PROTEIN; PROTEIN SCPB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL SURFACE; CLONAL SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; FEMALE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INSERTION SEQUENCE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN IMMOBILIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEROTYPE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; UPREGULATION;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL CAPSULES; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL MEMBRANE; DNA, INTERGENIC; ENDOPEPTIDASES; FIBRONECTINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, BACTERIAL; GENES, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZED PROTEINS; INTERSPERSED REPETITIVE SEQUENCES; LAMININ; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP B';

EID: 77956270577     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0010794     Document Type: Article

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